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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the items are more entertaining than others but each should produce at least one chuckle and in several the angle of risibility is acute. And there isn't enough fun going around in these analytic days for anyone to miss the genuine plums in this particular collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Footlights* | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

...course, the food isn't especially good. There is something wrong with it, the best of it. It fills but it does not nourish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Not Exactly Communism | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

When he reached New York he exclaimed: "If the President were here, I'd go and talk to him first, of course. But he isn't here and the only thing for me to do is to holler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Voices | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

...contention and Taisie's own attractions very nearly wreck things at various times?for far too many people are anxious to marry her. The actions of McMasters often seem very strange?can it be that he is a traitor and in league with her enemies? Of course he isn't a traitor?and of course, in the end, he marries Taisie?the expedition is successful?the villain punished in an appropriately ghastly manner?in fact he is flayed alive? and Taisie and Dan, one conjectures, settle down to raising the finest cattle and red-haired children in Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: *North of 36 | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

...occasion, and one correspondent recorded that the Indians employed were released from jail where they had been imprisoned for violating the Volstead Act. There the President delivered an address on the opening of the Oregon Trail, telling the dramatic story of the missionary, Marcus Whitman, and adding, "If it isn't true, it ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Anabasis | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

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